Read this excerpt from The Outsiders. What is the theme of this excerpt?
I'm different that way. I mean, my second-oldest
brother, Soda, who is sixteen-going-on-seventeen,
never cracks a book at all, and my oldest brother,
Darrel, who we call Darry, works too long and hard to
be interested in a story or drawing a picture, so I'm not
like them. And nobody in our gang digs movies and
books the way I do. For a while there, I thought I was
the only person in the world that did.
O Being part of a team is meaningful.
O Growing up means accepting oneself.
O Nature teaches powerful life lessons.
O Family traditions are important.